Amalia Leguizamón is Associate Professor of Sociology at Tulane University, where she studies the political economy of the environment in Latin America. She examines the power dynamics behind development and climate change and their uneven consequences for people and ecosystems.

She is the author of Seeds of Power: Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina (Duke University Press, 2020), an award-winning study translated into Spanish and Portuguese.

She is also Director of Graduate Studies for the City, Culture, and Community PhD Program, a core faculty member at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, and a member of the Environmental Studies Faculty Advisory Committee.